ReadWriteWeb:
It's time for our annual predictions post, in which the ReadWriteWeb authors look forward to what 2009 might bring in the world of Web technology and new media. Looking back at our 2008 Web predictions, we got some of them right! "The big Internet companies will [embrace] open standards" (Google, Yahoo and others did this); (Read More)
: Some very interesting predictions for 2009. Some of them I agree with, a couple I highly doubt will come to be. But we'll see how these turn out this time next year.
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
All about GoogleView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: google strategy)Here it is: Google’s strategy to take over the world. Or at least, this is Google’s plan according to French consulting firm faberNovel, who summarize the Big G’s plot - from YouTube, to the Facebook threat, to competing with Microsoft, (Read More)
Submitted by Magitam
from Google Reader:
Here we go again. It seems like just yesterday we heard the first whispers of a Google desktop OS, and products like Chrome stoke suspicions that the Mountain View-based company is setting itself up to invade the PC. Although Google insists that it's focusing on the cloud, since Android was announced, the feasibility of a G (Read More)
BBC:
Overnight, and with little fanfare, Google has released another product which should helpin its quest for total domination of the web. It's added voice and video to its Gmail chat service. For Skype, the service which has become synonymous wih internet telephony, this is something of a wake-up call.Once you download the plu (Read More)
: I do not use gmail as a mail client as I have other email addresses and prefer a desktop client, my mail.app from Apple. So i have to use gmail chat feature to access this?
ReadWriteWeb:
Search engines are great at retrieving textual information, but even though a lot of search results today are actually videos, most search engines still only display a text link to those videos. A new Greasemonkey script from VideoSurf changes this by adding small film strips to every video that appears in your search resul (Read More)